Is there any difference in behaviour of below URL.
I don't know why the &
is inserted, does it make any difference ?
www.testurl.com/test?param1=test&current=true
versus
www.testurl.com/test?param1=test¤t=true
&
is HTML for "Start of a character reference".
&
is the character reference for "An ampersand".
¤t;
is not a standard character reference and so is an error (browsers may try to perform error recovery but you should not depend on this).
If you used a character reference for a real character (e.g. ™
) then it (™) would appear in the URL instead of the string you wanted.
(Note that depending on the version of HTML you use, you may have to end a character reference with a ;
, which is why &trade=
will be treated as ™. HTML 4 allows it to be ommited if the next character is a non-word character (such as =
) but some browsers (Hello Internet Explorer) have issues with this).